My sentiments exactly...and i won't waste the next four yrs worrying about stuff i have no control over - it is what it is

Certainly true. The time to do something was during the Republican primaries, when they could have selected a candidate and platform that appealed to the middle of the road. Obama was ripe for the taking. Instead they went extremist, and lost. Now we - all of us - have Obama four more years.

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.....we gotta pull down our big kids pants , bend over and take it.....or go be an illegal in mexico.....

Now that the election is finally over, I'm curious to find out if the Republicans are willing to sacrifice the good of the entire American nation another four years through obstruction for obstruction's sake all in the name of "making Obama fail", and if the Dems will come off some of their own sticking points ... like food stamps. I think I'm the only one in all Chicagoland not carrying an Illinois LINK card these days. I'm even going to write my Dem Congresswoman about that one.

Lucky for us they didn't have such a candidate. I can't think of a single member of the Republican party who is "middle of the road."

Not the current extremist Republican party, that's for sure. Well, maybe that one Senator from Maine who retired. And Scott Brown from Mass. didn't seem too bad, but he made the mistake of aligning with the extremists early on. The rest are all raving lunatics, farther to the right than Barry Goldwater ever dreamed of being.

I'm thinking in terms of more centrist guys from the past, like Eisenhower, Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Bush I, etc. Guys who knew you have to be President of ALL the people of both sexes and all colors, and try to address all their needs. Not guys who immediately write off the 47% who don't make enough to pay income tax and say you're not going to worry about them, or embrace party policies that are openly hostile to women, and Latinos, and older folks living on SS, etc.

Here is an example Terry whats wrong with the link program I have a cousin who has over 400K cash in his bank account from accident settlement works full-time for his family business cash and has his home paid for 208K from accident settlement. Perfectly healthy and working right now but because he shows no income he gets to keep the 181.00 per month food stamps plus he has medicade full insurance with perscription card. Because he makes no reported income he gets to keep all these benefits paid for by the hard working tax payers.

Here is an example Terry whats wrong with the link program I have a cousin who has over 400K cash in his bank account from accident settlement works full-time for his family business cash and has his home paid for 208K from accident settlement. Perfectly healthy and working right now but because he shows no income he gets to keep the 181.00 per month food stamps plus he has medicade full insurance with perscription card. Because he makes no reported income he gets to keep all these benefits paid for by the hard working tax payers.

I know there are things wrong with that program here and in other states. Like I said, when I go to the store, it seems like I'm the only one not whipping out a Link card. I know this isn't Lake Forest, but come on. In Montana unmarried mothers can get food stamps even if they're living in a big house with a very successful guy for many years and the kids are his. Unfortunately the states make a lot of the eligibility rules because, as Romney continually reminded us, they know better how to allocate the Federal dollars. I'm going to write my Congresswoman and tell her I think that needs to be revisited. Either that or just cut the total and make the states do the work on their rules. I know you have a Dem senator yourself in Durbin, so you should also write to him.

Illinois food stamp "credit" card recharged monthly. Which, for some reason, it seems you are able to "get cash back" with just like your own debit card to some extent, and then turn around and use that cash to fund your liquor purchase (rung up separately). Amazing things you see go on in the checkout line around here.

Which, for some reason, it seems you are able to "get cash back" with just like your own debit card to some extent,

This isn't true. I live in a neighborhood with a lot of poor people on food aid. The way people with Link cards try to get cash from them is to ask if they can buy food for someone (e.g. me) with the Link card and have the person being solicited pay them the amount debited from their card in cash.

This isn't true. I live in a neighborhood with a lot of poor people on food aid. The way people with Link cards try to get cash from them is to ask if they can buy food for someone (e.g. me) with the Link card and have the person being solicited pay them the amount debited from their card in cash.

A guy I worked with would buy them for 50 cents on the dollar several years ago. Not sure if you can do that now, but would imagine it is easy to find a place to use it even if your name isn't on it.

This isn't true. I live in a neighborhood with a lot of poor people on food aid. The way people with Link cards try to get cash from them is to ask if they can buy food for someone (e.g. me) with the Link card and have the person being solicited pay them the amount debited from their card in cash.

I've seen with my own eyes the cashiers simply hand over cash to people who just bought their food with the card. Maybe there was some bogus intermediate transaction or fake item sold, but the bottom line was cash was coming off the card, which was then used to buy the next item on the conveyor belt, liquor. Like I said, when I go to the stores in my neighborhood, it seems I'm about the only one WITHOUT a Link card, and I've seen it all through the years.

Like Terry, I've seen many people using link cards where I shop. Sometimes I wonder if I am the only one who doesn't have a link card. However, I mostly shop at a store without liquor and never saw it used for that. I have no problem with it being used for food.

As for the Escalade crowd using link, think about it. at least they are buying American. hahahaha

depending on the card and the benefit there maybe cash involved on the cardif a person is only receiving food stamps there is no cash involvedthey can only purchase groceries to be taken home and fixed to eatno ready to eat heated products like chicken from the deli can be bought

embrace party policies that are openly hostile to women, and Latinos, and older folks living on SS, etc.

Bush passed prescription plan for seniors in 2003

Obama promissed immigration reform the first year of his first term-yet nothing. He has deported 400,000 per year-more than any other president.(I applaud him for doing his job on this)

As a State Senator, Barack Obama voted `present' on seven abortion bills, including a ban on 'partial birth abortion,' two parental notification laws and three 'born alive' bills. In each case, the right vote was clear, but Senator Obama chose political cover over standing and fighting for his convictions. A real leader for a woman's rights?

It's pretty hard to believe these righties truly care anything at all about human life when you see them in their primary debates cheering the idea of human beings dying because they don't have health insurance. Not to mention all their war blood lust and disregard for the lives of humans in other countries.

It's pretty hard to believe these righties truly care anything at all about human life when you see them in their primary debates cheering the idea of human beings dying because they don't have health insurance. Not to mention all their war blood lust and disregard for the lives of humans in other countries.

Is that similar to the disregard this administration had for the four Americans killed in Benghazi when they pleaded for help? I guess they have started early by dictating who lives and dies like they will with Obamacare. If they had flashed their union cards, they may be alive today.